Illustrating a Children's Book

Here is the finished product of my illustrated version of 'Daga and the Flying Troll of Sky Mountain'

An old Swedish tale, originally illustrated by John Beaur. 

If it was to be published, this is basically how it would look.

 I drew each illustration in pen, used watercolours and finished digitally using Photoshop and Illustrator.

This one did not originally have a starry sky with a moon, I took that out and added one I did using inks, watercolour and acrylics, among other things.

This is the cover I decided on.

Hope you like!

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Illustrating a Fairytale Part Two

My progress on this project;

I have been experimenting with media and playing around with thumbnail ideas. For this I used watercolours and white ink. I adjusted the tones slightly after I took a photo of it.

I watched a tutorial on Youtube on how to paint a galaxy. I tried it out using watercolours, bleach and acrylics. I like the way it turned out, I might do a few more of these.

 Experimenting - Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Thanks for stopping by.

Nicola

Sketchy

I have set myself the challenge of doing a sketch a day for 30 days. So far I am on day 5. I enjoy doodling away, even if it's not a perfect drawing, it's a good way of stretching your imagination kinda thing.